Coryza

//kəˈɹɑɪ̯.zə// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, usually causing a running nose, nasal congestion and loss of smell. countable, uncountable

    "In his writing on coryza, Celsus repeats the belief of Hippocrates that some cases of phthisis owe their origin to catarrh of the nasal passages; so far as coryza is concerned, he says, there is nothing pestiferous about it unless it ulcerates […]"

  2. 2
    an inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the nose (usually associated with nasal discharge) wordnet
  3. 3
    Rhinitis or rhinosinusitis; cold or coldlike illness; common cold. broadly, countable, metonymically, uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corȳza, from Ancient Greek κόρυζα (kóruza, “nasal mucus”).

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